Liberal San Francisco area residents don't want homes devalued by Habitat for Humanit

[FromTexas]

"We're painted as Marin liberals getting our karma leveled by Habitat for Humanity," says Bill Duane

Gee, you think?!

 

[Pete]

Some are unmoved. "We have nothing against Habitat," says Ed Sotelo, who has lived in the neighborhood for 50 years. "We're all working stiffs, you know. "

Oh yea?

Marin County is one of the nation's costliest housing markets. Last month, the median price of a single-family home was $935,000, according to DataQuick, a real estate information company.

HA! you are one of the evil rich people liberals wank about.

But they're contemplating putting this development at probably the most hazardous traffic corner of Marin County

it's not that we don't want less wealthy middle class living next door......it's a safety issue....yea yea that's it! Safety issue safety issue



Pathetic hypocrites.

 

[vraiblonde]

I LOVE it!

 

[FromTexas]

We need to start a charity to open a soup kitchen there!

 

[2ndAmendment]

We need to start a charity to open a soup kitchen there!

Where do Pelosi and Feinstein live? We could start soup kitchens there, too.

 

[FromTexas]

Where do Pelosi and Feinstein live? We could start soup kitchens there, too.

Its like the Greenpeace chick who was talking about how I should get involved in donating to them to help get the wind farm up near Manassas (sp?). I told her I would gladly sign a petition for that wind farm, but I wouldn't donate unless I could guarantee the money only went to helping build that wind farm and not to other Greenpeace objectives. My reasoning -- Sure, wind farms are good but helping make that good while sticking it to Ted Kennedy is even better.

 

[Lenny]

"We're painted as Marin liberals getting our karma leveled by Habitat for Humanity," says Bill Duane

Gee, you think?!

Geez, four houses on 16 acres is 'affordable housing?' I agree with the neighbor who says the 'affordable houses' won't remain affordable when the original owner sells (in, what, three weeks?)

Didn't Habitat build hutches which were no more than plywood boxes, 4 x 8 floor plan, crawl-in doorway and one window? I think that's what they built for the homless in D.C. until Jimmy hooked up with them.

 

[jazz lady]

We need to start a charity to open a soup kitchen there!

Then you can totally go from "Soup to Nuts."

 

[Pete]

Geez, four houses on 16 acres is 'affordable housing?' I agree with the neighbor who says the 'affordable houses' won't remain affordable when the original owner sells (in, what, three weeks?)
.

They do contractual tricks to ensure the "owner" doesn't flip the place and make a windfall.

But I agree 16 acres is more than enough space for 49 "affordable houses". Even better a high rise with a basketball court and a half pipe.

 

[hvp05]

We need to start a charity to open a soup kitchen there!

And Wolfgang Puck could be the chef.

Even their "low income" would look pretty good to most of the country.

 

[chernmax]

Then you can totally go from "Soup to Nuts."

In San Francisco, most would skip the soup and go right for the nuts!!!

 

[FromTexas]

If they flip the house, they have to pay off the second mortgage which is the difference between the price they paid and the market price of the house. If they stay in the house for whatever period of time or condition is met (pretty stringent), they don't have to pay off the second mortgage.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/25/BAG9QNOQLT1.DTL

Here is some more to the story. The entire 16.5 acres aren't for Habitat for Humanity. It is part of some plot a developer wants to put homes in, but is required by regulations to have so many affordable housing homes per number of other homes.

 

[FromTexas]

Bill Duane's full quote is better...

"Habitat for Humanity goes into blighted neighborhoods and fixes them up. Here they are going into an enhanced neighborhood and blighting it," said Bill Duane, a 58-year-old resident of Bay Vista Drive, near the proposed site. "I'm not against low-cost housing, but this is social engineering. The county does not have the right to choose my neighbors."

They said they support, and in some cases have participated in, the charity's work, but do not believe the development will fit into their neighborhood, where most homes are worth between $1 million and $2 million.

Translation: We support you as long as we don't have to live near you or see your shoddy homes once we leave the charity site for our afternoon teas. We only come do those things because we are rich people with a guilt complex. Besides, its posh to do charity work; just don't take the work home with you...

 

[scottrobts]

Where do Pelosi and Feinstein live? We could start soup kitchens there, too.

wasn't somebody trying to get the home of one of the Supreme Court Justices seized under Emminent Domain in protest of their decision on giving local communities the right to seize private property for commercial developement?

 

[scottrobts]

didn't somebody sell a house they got for charity after Katrina and pocket the proceeds without ever having lived in it?

 

[vraiblonde]

Bill Duane's full quote is better...

"I say, old sport, we moved here to to get away from you riffraff...."



Just when you think liberal hypocrisy can't get anymore outrageous...

 

[vraiblonde]

wasn't somebody trying to get the home of one of the Supreme Court Justices seized under Emminent Domain in protest of their decision on giving local communities the right to seize private property for commercial developement?

What does that have to do with the topic of this thread?

 

[PsyOps]

In the same liberal hypocritical vein...

I know this is old news, but it fits in this line of liberal hypocrisy... RFK Jr: Give up your SUVs but I still want my private jets; Nancy Pelosi: I will lead the most ethcial Congress in history, well except for a few criminals that I appoint to key positions; And this...

Storm Over Mass. Windmill Plan

The campaign to stop the wind farms was started by Cape Cod merchants and wealthy landowners. It's also opposed by almost every town government. Sen. Ted Kennedy, who has a home overlooking the proposed wind farm, also opposes the project. So does one of Martha's Vineyard most famous residents, former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite.

They are only interested in their own interests. Period.

 

[Bustem' Down]

I wouldn't want them built near my home either, but I'm a jerk sometimes. Just because I help the less fortunate, doesn't mean I want to live near them.

 

[PsyOps]

I wouldn't want them built near my home either, but I'm a jerk sometimes. Just because I help the less fortunate, doesn't mean I want to live near them.

When you preach environmentalism and demand this compliance from others, then when it comes time to act yourself... How do you explain that away?